American politicians with the worst criminal records – Trust me! That’s what every politician is asking when you step up to cast your vote on Election Day. While the majority of officials may be stupid or incompetent or both, they at least seem to take their oath of office seriously. But scores of others have violated the public trust in shocking and outrageous fashion.
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Crimes ranging from fraud, embezzlement and accepting bribes all the way to manslaughter and sexual assault have been committed by elected representatives.
Watergate is synonymous with criminal acts committed by federal officials because it ultimately led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. The break-in, bugging and burglary at Democratic Party campaign headquarters at the Watergate office complex and attempted cover-up afterward resulted in convictions for 69 of the president’s men, although “Tricky Dick” was never formally impeached or charged with a crime.
The Watergate scandal tarnished the pure image of public officials, especially at the federal level. The fantasy that congressmen, senators or even the president would never commit a crime was blown away forever. Of course, crooked officials have been roaming the halls of the Capitol since the earliest days of the Republic, but after Watergate we were no longer surprised to hear about lawmakers breaking the law.
Even so, some crimes committed since Watergate were particularly memorable and outrageous. Here are 10 federal politicians with the worst criminal records.
10. Vice President Spiro Agnew; Income Tax Evasion
Vice President Agnew did not play a role in Watergate, but heightened scrutiny of all the president’s men led investigators to discover that as Governor of Maryland six years earlier, Agnew failed to report thousands of dollars of income on his federal tax return.
After two months of angry denials, Agnew finally fessed up to being a tax cheat. He resigned the vice presidency in 1973 just as the Watergate scandal started heating up.
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